It is difficult to give the credit to any one individual for
discovering the idea of “cybernetics”, but generally it is known to
have been coined by MIT professor, Norbert Wiener, a mathematician,
engineer and social philosopher in 1947. The term can be traced to
the Greek “kubernetes” or “steersman,” and may be defined as the
study of homeostatic control mechanisms in organisms and machines
(the science of communication and control in animal
and machine). By communication is meant the system of routes for
moving vehicles, people or supplies, or the kind of entities or
messages actually exchanged in the process of communication, like
letters, telegrams, taped messages. Communications are the …

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